std.xml should just go

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 2/3/11 9:11 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> Nobody that I know of. If you want to discuss design here while
>> working on it, that would be great. I could think of a few high-level
>> requirements:
>>
>> * works with input ranges so we can plug it in with any source
>
> The difficulty with that is if it's a pure input range, then the output
> cannot be slices of the input.

In that case it's fair to require sliceable ranges of characters then, 
or strings outright. It all boils down to stating one's assumptions and 
choices. Probably parameterizing on character width would be 
recommendable anyway.

Andrei